Silence and Poetry

”I feel the real medium for me is silence, so I could be writing in any language. To inflect the inner silence, to give it body, that’s all we’re doing. You use the voice to make the silence present. The real subject in poetry isn’t the voice. The real subject is silence.
— Li Young Lee ”

Utdrag från: Maggie Ross. ”Silence- A User’s Guide, Volume Two”. iBooks.

”The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
—C. S. Lewis”

Utdrag från: Maggie Ross. ”Silence- A User’s Guide, Volume Two”. iBooks.

”But if a poem isn’t even good enough to be a poem, I don’t think it’s descended from God: [If] there is no “I” [as in Martin Buber’s I and Thou], there is no God. The ‘Me’ talking about ‘Me’—that’s not enough.” Li Young Lee